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2515

Overview

Will R. Turner is affiliated with Conservation International in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, primarily focusing on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management

Will R. Turner has contributed to a variety of recent papers published in recognized scientific venues. Selected publications include:

  • National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics, 2020, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems, 2020, published in Nature Climate Change
  • Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth's ecosystems, 2021, published in Nature Sustainability
  • Mapping the planet's critical natural assets, 2022, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global hotspots for coastal ecosystem-based adaptation, 2020, published in PLoS ONE

Among the frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Will R. Turner are:

  • David Hole
  • Monica Noon
  • Patrick R. Roehrdanz
  • Susan C. Cook-Patton
  • Juan Carlos Ledezma

Their work has been featured in several publication venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Global Biodiversity Conservation: The Critical Role of Hotspots

    Russell A. Mittermeier;Will R. Turner;Frank W. Larsen;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks

  • Global Urbanization and the Separation of Humans from Nature

    Will R. Turner;Toshihiko Nakamura;Marco Dinetti

  • Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration

    Samuel S. Myers;Lynne Gaffikin;Christopher D. Golden;Richard S. Ostfeld

  • Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    Will R. Turner;Katrina Brandon;Thomas M. Brooks;Robert Costanza

  • Improvements to the Red List Index.

    Stuart H.M. Butchart;H. Resit Akçakaya;Janice Chanson;Jonathan E.M. Baillie

  • National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics

    Bronson W Griscom;Bronson W Griscom;Jonah Busch;Susan C Cook-Patton;Peter W Ellis

  • Global Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation

    Elizabeth R. Selig;Will R. Turner;Sebastian Troëng;Bryan P. Wallace

  • Protecting irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

    Allie Goldstein;Will R. Turner;Seth A. Spawn;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

  • Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty

    Will R. Turner;Katrina Brandon;Thomas M. Brooks;Claude Gascon

  • Scale‐dependence in species‐area relationships

    Will R. Turner;Even Tjørve

  • The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots

    Allie Goldstein;Will R. Turner;Jillian Gladstone;David G. Hole;David G. Hole;David G. Hole

  • Cost-effective global conservation spending is robust to taxonomic group

    Michael Bode;Kerrie A. Wilson;Thomas M. Brooks;Thomas M. Brooks;Will R. Turner

  • Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems

    Elizabeth R. Selig;Elizabeth R. Selig;Elizabeth R. Selig;David G. Hole;David G. Hole;Edward H. Allison;Edward H. Allison;Katie K. Arkema

  • The transmission of advertisement calls in Central American frogs

    Nicole M. Kime;Will R. Turner;Michael J. Ryan

  • Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems

    Monica L. Noon;Allie Goldstein;Juan Carlos Ledezma;Patrick R. Roehrdanz

  • Citywide biological monitoring as a tool for ecology and conservation in urban landscapes: the case of the Tucson Bird Count

    Will R. Turner

  • Conserving biodiversity in production landscapes

    K. A. Wilson;E. Meijaard;S. Drummond;H. S. Grantham

  • A force to fight global warming

    Will R. Turner;Michael Oppenheimer;David S. Wilcove

  • Comparing mechanistic and empirical model projections of crop suitability and productivity: implications for ecological forecasting

    L. D. Estes;B. A. Bradley;H. Beukes;D. G. Hole

  • Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets

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  • Climate change: helping nature survive the human response

    Will R. Turner;Bethany A. Bradley;Lyndon D. Estes;David G. Hole

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Brooks
Thomas M. Brooks International Union for Conservation of Nature
David G. Hole
David G. Hole Conservation International
David S. Wilcove
David S. Wilcove Princeton University
Russell A. Mittermeier
Russell A. Mittermeier Conservation International
Bronson W. Griscom
Bronson W. Griscom Conservation International
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University
Mark Mulligan
Mark Mulligan King's College London
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer Stanford University
Claude Gascon
Claude Gascon Global Environment Facility
Sandra Díaz
Sandra Díaz National University of Córdoba

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